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REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1886. 

 Visitors. 



Daring the year* tlie number of visitors to the Museum Building has 

 been 174,225, or an average of 5(53 persons each day, and to the Smith- 

 sonian buihling 88,900, or an average of 288 each daj^, as shown in the 

 following table : 



Month. 



1885. 



J'lly 



Au<f list 



September 



October 



November 



December 



18H(i. 



January 



February 



March 



April 



May 



June 



Museum 

 Building. 



12, 509 

 12, 574 

 14, 520 

 14, 001 

 12, l(i4 

 15, 463 



12, 057 

 14, 398 

 16, 935 

 20. 099 

 15, 034 

 14,471 



174, 225 



Smith- 

 sonian 

 Building. 



6,219 



9, 484 

 8, 313 

 6,487 

 5, 774 

 7,550 



6, 235 

 6, 373 

 8, 194 

 9, 318 

 7,261 

 7, 752 



88, 960 



The total number of visitors to both buildings since the record was 

 first kept is given below : 



Year. 



Museum 

 Buildiujr. 



Smithsonian 

 Bnildiuff. 



1881 



1882 



1H83 



1884 



l.'iM5 (January-June) 

 1885-86 



Totals 



* 1.50, 000 

 tl(J7,455 

 202, 188 

 195, 322 

 107,365 

 174,225 



996, 485 



152, 744 



104, 823 

 91,130 

 60, 438 

 88, 960 



498,085 



* Estimated on basis of register. 



t Estimated on basis of attendance from February 8 to December 31. 



Students and Lectures. 



As in previous years, all reasonable applications for i)ermission to 

 study the INIuseum collections have been granted. Mr. G. F. Matthew 

 studied the Lowcn" Cambriiin fauna of New Brunswick in the Depart- 

 ment of Paleozoic Invertebrate Fossils. Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Dr. \i. 

 W. Shufeldt and others have published ]>ai>orst based upon material 



* The Museum was open to tin; public 3UJ days iu the year, 

 t See Part iv of this report. 



